Suite of coordinating diagnostic medical simulators for live training and evaluation

Abstract

A medical training system comprises a controller configured to program a plurality of medical device simulators, and a plurality of medical device simulators coupled to the controller, including at least two of a sphygmomanometer simulator, pulse simulator, thoracic cavity simulator, scale and stadiometer simulator, pulse oximetry simulator, and thermometer simulator. The plurality of medical device simulators form a suite of coordinating

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61 / 931,790, filed Jan. 27, 2014 entitled “Diagnostic Medical Simulators for Live Training and Evaluation.”[0002]This application is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 281,506 entitled Universal Sphygmomanometer Simulator for Live Training and Evaluation” which published as US 2014-0342332 A1 on Nov. 20, 2014 and which publication is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 281,506 claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61 / 824,939, filed May 17, 2013 entitled “Universal Sphygmomanometer Simulator for Live Training and Evaluation.”BACKGROUND INFORMATION[0003]1. Field of the Invention[0004]The present invention relates to a suite of coordinating diagnostic medical simulators for live training and evaluation, such as a sphygmomanometer simulator, pulse simulator, thoracic cavity s...

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Benefits of technology

[0043]One aspect of the present invention provides a universal sphygmomanometer simulator for live training and evaluation. The term universal is intended to indicate that the simulator of the present invention can be used with any manikin brand for manikin based simulated patients and with live simulated patients. The concept that the simulator is for live training indicates t

Problems solved by technology

They are used by trained practitioners, and cannot be used in environments too noisy to permit hearing the characteristic sounds.

Aneroid sphygmomanometers are considered safer than mercury based, although possibly less accurate.

A major cause of departure from calibration is mechanical jarring.

In addition to the digital oscillometric monitors drawbacks where they cannot be used, the overall accuracy of such devices has been questioned.

Too small a cuff 16 results in too high a pressure, while too large a cuff 16 results in too low a pressure.

The electronically generated sounds are digitally recorded.” While these simulators provide effective tools for supplying the trainees with a wide range of blood pressures to obtain and provide a method of verifying the accuracy of the trainee's results, they do not provide the real live aspects of interacting with a human regardless of how “lifelike” the systems become.

However this training technique offers very little variation in the blood pressures that the trainees will experience (in general the class room subjects have an average blood pressure) and does not allow the teacher to easily verify the results of a particular trainee or to present a trainee with a desired blood pressure to measure.

This live training technique also has the advantage of having trainees work with live subjects with all the aspects and nuances of interacting with live subjects, but it does not allow the trainee to actually obtain abnormal pressures (barring an actual abnormal condition of the actor) and lessens the realism of th

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